For those who can't wait to have their copy, here's foretaste of this superb new version!

Macway annouced that its new range of FireWire ICE FW 800 HD are now available for latest Macs with a FireWire 800 interface! They are 50 % more faster than all the FireWire or USB 2.0 solutions with performances up to 61Mo/s.

Features :
- 2 FireWire 800 ports / 9 pins- 9 pins (allowing the linking of other periphericals)
- 1 USB 2.0 port
- 1 FireWire 400 port
- 1 FireWire 800 9 pins - 9 pins cable
- 1 FireWire 400 6 pins - 6 pins standard cable
- 1 USB 2.0 cable (compatible with USB 1)

They are available in 120 Go 7200 T/min, 160Go 7200 T/min 8Mo, 180Go 7200 T/min 8Mo, 200Go 7200 T/min 8Mo, 250Go 7200 T/min 8Mo with a price from 334 to 681 euros.

After no less than 20 beta versions, Cycling '74 announced the release of OSX versions of the interactive graphical programming environment Max, and MSP, the collection of audio signal processing objects.

Christian Texier, a French graphic conceptor and musician created fonts especially used for modern music notation.
The fonts Acoustica, Concreta, Controla, Electronica, Tempera and Sonora work pretty well with most of the music notation softwares (Finale...) and they are totally free ! You can download them on the MidiDesign website.

At the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2003, Steinberg unveiled the new 2.0 version of their HALion VST sampler. Deliveries of HALion 2.0 began on 16th April, and began arriving at specialist music dealers a few days later.

Among the new features are brand new filters by the synthesizer specialists at Waldorf and the new 5.1 surround functionality.